{"id":1022228,"date":"2026-07-20T08:14:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T02:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1022228"},"modified":"2026-07-20T08:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T03:02:07","slug":"we-are-in-the-ugly-duckling-stage-of-ai-says-vineet-nayar-former-ceo-hcl-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/20\/we-are-in-the-ugly-duckling-stage-of-ai-says-vineet-nayar-former-ceo-hcl-technologies\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We are in the ugly duckling stage of AI,\u2019 says Vineet Nayar, former CEO, HCL Technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vineet Nayar, former CEO of HCL Technologies and founder-chairman of Sampark Foundation, challenges global trends on AI by advocating a people-first approach in his new book, Humans First, Machines Second. In an interview, he talks of how we need to ride the AI wave not in blind faith on technology, but in believing in human potential. Edited excerpts: <\/p>\n<p>Your turnaround of HCL Technologies is credited to a people-first approach and became a case study at Harvard Business School. Years later, how do you think the philosophy remains relevant, especially in the AI era?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vineet Nayar, former CEO of HCL Technologies and founder-chairman of Sampark Foundation, challenges global trends on AI by advocating a people-first approach in his new book, Humans First, Machines Second. In an interview, he talks of how we need to ride the AI wave not in blind faith on technology, but in believing in human potential. Edited excerpts: Your turnaround of HCL Technologies is credited to a people-first approach and became a case study at Harvard Business School. Years later, how do you think the philosophy remains relevant, especially in the AI era?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022234,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022228\/revisions\/1022234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}